The good ol’ days are back.

With all the talk of the AWP being nerfed, being bad, and being too slow on CS2, it’s down to the boomers to teach these new dogs some old tricks - which is why both FalleN and JW won their LANs this weekend.

Admittedly, FalleN has been taken off IGLing duties and JW was only AWPing against Swedish teams, but it’s a start. FURIA were playing at Elisa Masters Espoo, an event in Finland with some solid teams, while JW’s EYEBALLERS won a Swedish event known as Svenska Cupen, for reference.

FURIA switched back to arT’s rather roguish and unique style of calling for an event and the results were incredible - exactly as good as they used to be. They rolled over MOUZ, HAVU and Apeks en route to their biggest ever LAN victory.

Yep, really. KSCERATO has been a world class rifler for this long and has never won anything better than Elisa Masters Espoo. Not that the event is bad, it’s just… it feels like KSCERATO should win events like this for breakfast.

It was neither FalleN nor KSCERATO who took MVP, though. Nor was it yuurih, or arT, or even chelo (who was their highest rated player in a 3-1 grand final win over Apeks). It was nawwk, who was the only shining light on Apeks in the final, and a large reason they got to it in the first place.

Now, what sort of team could do with a Swedish AWPer who averages 1.28 ratings at a tier two event? Beats us, honestly.

On an unrelated note, Ninjas in Pyjamas went out in the semi-finals of Svenska Cupen to GODSENT, with - and we’re not messing with you here - Plopski topfragging.

If there is a god, he’s not an NIP fan, and he’s got a great sense of humour.

We should say they were playing with Silence and maxster instead of headtr1ck and alex, but that’s “context” and “facts” that get in the way of an amusing story.

GODSENT went on to get absolutely smacked by a vintage JW performance, which is glorious. We’d forgotten he was still playing, frankly, but seeing him shine once again made us feel all warm and gooey inside.